MUMBAI, Nov 25 — A female superhero will use her powers to fight sex crimes in India and the stigma that trafficking survivors face, in the third instalment of a comic series due to be released this week. Priya, a rape survivor-turned superhero who flies around on a tiger, fought her abusers and...
Monday, 25 Nov 2019 04:05 PM MYTMUMBAI, Nov 25 — A female superhero will use her powers to fight sex crimes in India and the stigma that trafficking survivors face, in the third instalment of a comic series due to be released this week.
“More importantly, we have given voices and put attention on survivors of gender-based violence,” Devineni told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email. India recorded around 3,000 human trafficking cases in 2017, according to recently released crime data, which anti-trafficking campaigners said masked the true scale of the crime.for free from tomorrow, Priya rescues sex trafficking victims and challenges the communities that refuse to accept them on their return home.
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